 ... the passage from' the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness...  Littell's Living Age - Page 4601868Full view - About this book
 | 1872 - 642 pages
...apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why" (Tyndall's Fragments of Science, p. 120). If thought, however, be but a form of physical force, necessarily... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1874 - 764 pages
...passage from the physics of the brain lo the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded,... | |
 | 1874 - 796 pages
...vacuum the moment we seek to comprehend the connection between them." And again elsewhere :* "Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action...simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual organs, nor apparently any rudiment of the organs, which would enable us to pass by a process of reasoning... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1875 - 500 pages
...passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action...other. They appear together, but we do not know why." — TYNDALL, Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association, 1868. To... | |
 | Théodule Ribot - 1875 - 478 pages
...have said, some remarkable reflections of the great English physicist, Tyndall. 'Granted,' says he, 'that a definite thought and a definite molecular...us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded,... | |
 | London coll. of the Presbyterian church in England - 1875 - 268 pages
...passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why The chasm between the two classes of phenomena... | |
 | James McCosh - 1875 - 76 pages
...structure — it may rise to intelligence and feeling. He has, however, to allow in his Appendix, " Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action...us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one to the other." He speaks of the chasm between the two classes of phenomena being " intellectually impassable."... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1875 - 470 pages
...a definite thought, and a definite molecr1" action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not p the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment...us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded,... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg, T. M. Gorman - 1875 - 580 pages
...physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted (it is said) that a definite thought, and a definite molecular...simultaneously ;* we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor * This is the fundamental fallacy of the Leibnitzian system of the connexion between the soul and the... | |
 | 1875 - 844 pages
...comprehend the connection between them." And again elsewhere : * " Granted that adefinite thought 2nd a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual organs, nor apparently any rudiment of the organs, which would enable us to pass by a process of reasoning... | |
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